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I have GSAK, I will try with that. To me it is crazy that there is not a way to do this in a decent fashion built into GC.com. The events I have attended in the past have all had multiple laptops with gsak or easyGPS to load up everyones gps. for my phone I just get them to email me the file and i can import it right into the caching app i use. I've also had it dropboxed for download at some events. the thought of entering paper cords to me would kill the fun of the event.

I'd appreciate if you would please expand on this? I am not apparently practicing good google-fu and have been unable to find software that will package the data from a cache (name, gc, cords, text, hint) into a gpx Part of the fun of an event is the blinding light of a blank log and the race to the next cache. There was an event I attended and a couple of days before the event our 50 state star was published. I ended up going down early and getting 40 or so of the ftf's on the star and achieved a slight pariah status at the event. Since then I have been a bit circumspect and for this event I'm trying to ensure a parity in opportunity. Additionally, with up to 200 caches It would take most of the day for some cachers to manually type in the cords, every larger event (geocaching geoart, Yankton annual events, Watertown events) I've attended has had a GPX and I've heard that in the past the reviewer was able to create these but they no longer have that option, which is why i'm searching out the alternatives. For those who use phones, loading newly published caches on the fly isn't that hard but for everyone who uses a GPS not much "on the fly" that you can actually do.

Make waypoints, export therm as gpx , email to participants. If course you won't have the geocaching seal of approval. But it will make running the event a lot easier as long as the gpx is created by me I can share it all i want, correct? only GPX's created by geocaching.com, like pq's do they not want shared. mainly, i believe because they want to limit that to premium members.

this is not applicable to my question.

I am placing caches for an event and I'm wondering how exactly does one get a GPX created to load on everyone's various devices at the beginning of the event. Bookmarking is not allowed prior to publishing attempting to download a GPX from an individual cache does not do anything trying to download a LOC file gets a smart alecky <![CDATA[Thanks for Playing by Nice Try]]></name> This event will have at least 30 caches of mine, and hopefully up to 200 caches (depends on others diligence in placing) so how exactly are we to create a GPX for the event so we can load peoples GPS's? I talked to the reviewer and apparently they used to be able to do it but that option no longer exists. So what is the option?

If your trackable ends up on a list, you'll know. 500 discover logs in German saying "thanks for sharing"

it's not an auto-logging "program" it's part of the GC.com API that can be used by GSAK, project GC, logthemall.com, http://tblogger.gcinfo.de/ mygeodb.de and so on.

deleting 500 at a time or just the 1 or 2 that it used to be before the bulk logging? what has changed with the api is the bulk logging. before the past few years you didn't see cachers with 20,000 trackables logged that don't even have 1000 caches found.

If you are certain that this site is facilitating false logs on your TB's, you might also send an email to Groundspeak, documenting their (ab)use of the API. If phony logs are coming from registered API partners, GS should take action against or require action from them. Explain to GS, that if the Trackables segment of the game continues its downward spiral, people will stop buying Trackables from GS. Well, that's my USD 0.02 worth. both sites i am aware of have heard from me, hopefully others in this discussion will also contact the site owner and project GC and any other site that offers this service. if anyone knows of other sites i would love to know about them so i can email them. As far as GC.com this is intermittantly raised with them and to date they have not been interested. People keep buying bugs, so their bottom line has not been affected. I don't want to stop buying and I will likely purchase more in the future, I just want to stop the liars discover logs. as far as the phony aspect, there is no way for any site to know that a specific cacher hasn't seen my bug but I know when they say "discovered at the giga" and my bug has never been to europe.

Did you send any of this info to Groundspeak? Perhaps they could sway him to, "do the right thing"... they do not care. pm a mod and you will find i am absolutely correct. That's odd. Maybe trackables aren't the cash cow I thought them to be. If they were, I'd think you'd want happy people buying more. $7.5 for a dog tag with a few numbers probably is a cash cow, but if you look at how primitive things are for tb's it's obvious they do not spend much time on it. Until the API I don't believe you could log more than one tb at a time, since the API release bulk discovering has been possible but the owner controls have not evolved at all. you can't even opt out of emails for your bugs, even bugs marked as lost.

I would love a bulk deletion option. go in check mark the logs that are bogus and delete them all.

I also just emailed project GC which also has the same functionality here http://project-gc.com/Tools/DiscoverTrackables, their email address is info@project-gc.com: I've used your site before to go geocaching with friends and to validate my qualifications on some challenge caches, however recently I've had a problem caused by those that are logging my travelbug using a bulk logging service. I have never given permission to anyone to include my bug on these lists and others are even more affected with thousands upon thousands of logs pouring in. I had to delete 500 logs by hand from the recent giga, others i've talked to are planning to archive their whole trackable collection, simply because they are being bombarded by emails and cannot enjoy their trackables any more. There is no point at which they benefit from fake logging discovers and for those of us that enjoy seeing our bugs go places having to go through pages of liar logs just to see what cache it went to this week or images that someone took the time to take of our trackable out there in the world are frustrated. I'd like to think your site is an ethical one and technologically you have no equal in the cool features you provide, So I would like to suggest 2 things: 1) an opt out for tb owners along with messaging in the discovered log on how to do so, kind of a black list basically so owners could say to log this on gc.com only. 2) a limit on the number per submit, 50 or 100 would at least slow down those who are submitting 3500 at once my tb http://coord.info/TB2TGQ9 has received 500+ logs from the GIGA in germany which I had to delete by hand, I've talked to another person who got 40,000 discovers and corresponding emails from the various events and others on the forums mention logs on long lost tbs and other issues http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=332177&st=0&gopid=5509030entry5509030. imagine how this would affect you, and please have some mercy on owners, I beg you. PLEASE. The next German Giga comes in 2 weeks so this will result in another tidal wave of discovers. PLEASE HELP US! Chris aka CNLSON PS here is what i received from the other owner: Hello, I’m contacting you concerning the “3200” discover list that was to been seen at the latest Giga in Mainz. Same as you, I have 200 to 300 trackingcodes of mine that are on that list without my knowledge or authorisation. I am also fed up with it and together with some German cacher we are trying to stop this unwanted list. My mailbox has now about 40.000 discover logs, from 4 events where my coins never been nor did I distribute a list myself. the next German Giga Event comming in about 2 weeks! Regards, Dirk aka Johnny Lightning User's Profile: http://coord.info/PR258VQ

Did you send any of this info to Groundspeak? Perhaps they could sway him to, "do the right thing"... they do not care. pm a mod and you will find i am absolutely correct.

The problem is sites like Log them all. I contacted the owner and suggested an opt out feature for people who don't want to be abused and his reply was basically "deal with it" perhaps if others make the case to him it would sway him to do the right thing. Michal Canecky 2:35 PM (37 minutes ago) Add Note to me Hi Chris Thanks for the feedback. Early version of this tool used geocaching wap interface which (I guess it was a bug in their interface) did not send any emails to the owners. Everyone was happy, well not everyone. Groundspeak contacted me that it violated their rules and I need to use their API or take it down. So I made the necessary changes. I remember when I found my first trackable, they were very rare and until up then I only read about them. I was very excited to find one and help it to move towards its goal. Trackables are not what they've used to be anymore. They are worthless, they are everywhere, they are mere annoyance. I made this tool to deal with the flood of trackables at every event I went to. There have been many trackable lists circulating since forever. Some made by the owners to save people's time if they want to discover their whole collection. If I limit number of trackables per session that can be logged, they will just split it into multiple parts. If I allow owners to opt out, that would defeat the purpose of this tool. What I suggest is that anyone who doesn't like the notification emails from Groundspeak, should set up a filter for those emails or contact Groundspeak to implement opt out feature from those emails. Sorry I can't help you with this. Michal On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:45 AM, Geocaching <noreply@geocaching.com> wrote: Geocaching CANO, I've used your service before to log tb's and for the few i have logged it has been helpful, however I would like to request 2 things 1) an opt out for tb owners along with messaging in the discovered log on how to do so 2) a limit on the number per submit, 50 or 100 would at least slow down those who are submitting 3500 at once my tb http://coord.info/TB2TGQ9 trk # XXXXXXX has received 500+ logs from the GIGA in germany, I've talked to another person who got 40,000 discovers and corresponding emails. imagine how this would affect you, and please have some mercy on owners, I beg you. PLEASE. The next German Giga comes in 2 weeks so this will result in another tidal wave of discovers. PLEASE HELP US! Chris aka CNLSON PS here is what i received from the other owner: Hello, I’m contacting you concerning the “3200” discover list that was to been seen at the latest Giga in Mainz. Same as you, I have 200 to 300 trackingcodes of mine that are on that list without my knowledge or authorisation. I am also fed up with it and together with some German cacher we are trying to stop this unwanted list. My mailbox has now about 40.000 discover logs, from 4 events where my coins never been nor did I distribute a list myself. the next German Giga Event comming in about 2 weeks! Regards, Dirk aka Johnny Lightning <Personal info removed by moderator>

or put some pictures on flicker and post a link here